Firms retreat as funds raised through IPOs in the region fall 26% Davis Polk & Wardwell and Kirkland & Ellis are the latest US firms to lose corporate partners from their Hong Kong offices as public listings in the region decline.
Channel 4’s Prash Naik is to leave the media company just over three years after his appointment as general counsel (GC). Naik (pictured) has been at Channel 4 for almost 23 years, starting as a legal and business affairs executive and taking on positions including senior lawyer and controller of legal and compliance before landing …
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson‘s London managing partner Graham White is to retire later this year with asset management partner Mark Mifsud taking up the role of London head.
After losing a number of finance partners in the last 12 months, Ashurst has made moves to re-strengthen its City offering and is developing a European high-yield offering for the first time.
Stephenson Harwood has re-appointed its management team with Sharon White staying on as the firm’s chief executive while Roland Foord has been re-elected as senior partner.
Kirkland & Ellis has hired Munich-based corporate partner Volkmar Bruckner from Weil, Gotshal & Manges following its loss of a seven-partner team in the city.
Coca-Cola European Partners has freshened up its legal leadership team as the expiration of the soft drink giant’s UK panel nears.
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer‘s aviation finance team is to depart for Holland & Knight following the exit of London’s sole aviation finance partner Rob Murphy.
Kirk Murdoch, chairman of Pinsent Masons in Scotland and Northern Ireland, has passed away after a battle with illness.
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Allen & Overy (A&O) have both kept on 31 members of their spring trainee intake, with retention rates of 84% and 82% respectively.
